Afghanistan Times

AT Kabul: “Shah Mohammad Mehrabi”, a member of the Afghanistan Trust Fund board in Switzerland, said that the central bank of Afghanistan should have conditional access to its assets abroad in order to use it for economic stability, banking performance and reducing inflation. He added that 150 million dollars should …

AT Kabul: The US’s biggest military base in Syria has come under rocket attack, hours after another installation housing American forces was similarly targeted with projectiles. Syria’s al-Watan daily reported the attack on Sunday, identifying the target as the US’s outpost in the al-Omar Oilfield in the eastern Syrian Province …

AT Kabul: Local Taliban officials say that three people were killed and two others were injured after an explosion occurred in the house of a former soldier in Zhirai district of Kandahar province. Ata Mohammad,Taliban police commander for Zhirai district, says that the explosion occurred at around 12:00 AM today. …

AT Kabul: A senior Taliban figure, Haji Bashir Noorzai, has been released after decades of detention by the United States and arrived in Kabul on Monday, a Taliban spokesperson said. “Mr. Haji Bashir was released after two decades of imprisonment and arrived in Kabul today,” said Mohammad Naeem, a Taliban …

AT Kabul: Officials of the Afghanistan Chamber of Industries and Mines say that their biggest problem is the lack of sufficient electricity in the industrial parks. The industrialists’ press conference “Regarding the fate of the Afghanistan Chamber of Industries and Mines” was held in Kabul today with the presence of …

AT Kabul: A 6.9 magnitude earthquake hit the sparsely populated southeastern part of Taiwan on Sunday, the island’s weather bureau said, derailing train carriages, causing a convenience store to collapse and trapping hundreds on mountain roads. The weather bureau said the epicentre was in Taitung County, and followed a 6.4 …

AT Kabul: The United Nations urged the Taliban on Sunday to reopen high schools for girls across Afghanistan, condemning the ban that began exactly a year ago as “tragic and shameful”. Weeks after the Taliban seized power in August last year, the group reopened high schools for boys on September …

AT Kabul: Zamir Kabulov, the special representative of the President of Russia for Afghanistan, has said that the current economic and social situation in Afghanistan is so dangerous that, according to him, this dangerous situation for the country is worse than armed conflict. Referring to the current situation of the …

AT News Kabul: Hamid Karzai, former president of Afghanistan congratulate the victory of the Afghanistan U-20 national football team, against Oman in the preliminary matches of the Asian Championship, and wish them more success in their future matches. Afghanistan’s under-20 national football team won 1-0 against Oman in their second …

AT Kabul: In its final statement, the members of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization called for the establishment of an inclusive government in Afghanistan. The declaration of this organization states: “Member countries consider it very important to establish an inclusive government in Afghanistan with the participation of representatives of all ethnic, …